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The Earth is warmer today than it has been for most of the past 11,300 years,
according to scientists.

Analysing fossils recovered from 73 sites around the world to track global
climate to the end of the last Ice Age, they found that for 70 per cent to
80 per cent of this period, which dates back to the start of the holocene
era in which we now live, temperatures were cooler than they are now.

Shaun Marcott, from Oregon State University, who led the research, said: “We
already knew that on a global scale, Earth is warmer today than